Kenton P O'Hara

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Proxemics Beyond Proximity: Designing for Flexible Social Interaction Through Cross-Device Interaction

Cross-device interactions enable ad hoc sharing of content and control in co-located collaboration. Cross-device research often draws from proxemics theory for designing interactions based on detection of spatial relations such as distance and orientation between people and devices. However, detection of human-human o…

CHI '184th AuthorK-12 Digital Education Tools +1

Collaborating Around Digital Tabletops: Children's Physical Strategies From India, The UK And Finland

We present a study of children collaborating around interactive tabletops in three different countries: India, the United Kingdom and Finland. Our data highlights the key distinctive physical strategies used by children when performing collaborative tasks during this study. Children in India employ dynamic positioning…

CHI '182nd AuthorBest PaperConversational Chatbots +3

Let’s Talk About Race: Identity, Chatbots, and AI

Why is it so hard for chatbots to talk about race? This work explores how the biased contents of databases, the syntactic focus of natural language processing, and the opaque nature of deep learning algorithms cause chatbots difficulty in handling race-talk. In each of these areas, the tensions between race and chatbo…

CHI '183rd AuthorHonorable MentionUncertainty Visualization +1

The Benefits and Challenges of Video Calling for Emergency Situations

In the coming years, emergency calling services in North America will begin to incorporate new modalities for reporting emergencies, including video-based calling. The challenge is that we know little of how video calling systems should be designed and what benefits or challenges video calling might bring. We conducte…

CHI '182nd AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Text in Talk: Lightweight Messages in Co-Present Interaction

While lightweight text messaging applications have been researched extensively, new messaging applications such as iMessage, WhatsApp and Snapchat offer some new functionality and potential uses. Moreover, the role messaging plays in interaction and talk with those who are co-present has been neglected. In this paper,…

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